Recent Blog Posts
In this guest post, Diana Rose, head of environmental, social and governance (ESG) research at ESG data analysis firm, Insig AI, sets out how artificial intelligence technology can assess whether ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Frustrated with your company’s cloud obsession? What goes around, comes around
Freeform Dynamics 12 May 2022Many of you reading this will be familiar with the experience of having to bite your lip as you watch your organisation pursue a ‘cloud first’ agenda in an almost religious manner. You know that ...
Data, as the saying goes, is the new oil. If a business loses its applications, it may cause some serious headaches in the IT department, but ultimately, it should be able to recover. Lose the ...
Cloud-native is here. Except it’s not, quite i.e. so many enterprises are still working their way through what they hope will be the first (or at least initial stages) of cloud deployment with just ...
Systems need data, organisations need data and, essentially, above all, people need data. But basic truisms aside, systems, organisations and people need data to be created, controlled, managed and ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Sheila Flavell CBE, COO of FDM Group, explains why it's so important to get women into STEM roles, and why now is the time to do so. Over two years on ...
Green Tech
How low energy warehouse robotics and automation are making supply chains more sustainable
10 May 2022In this guest post, James Smith, UK managing director of order fulfillment warehouse robot maker AutoStore Systems, explains how automation can bring sustainability benefits to warehouses and ...
This is a contributed piece for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Sune Ensig in his role as chief evangelist at Leapwork. Ensig writes as follows... The need for automation tools has ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
HP Inc's Poly opportunity: look beyond devices and software to a real collaboration strategy
Freeform Dynamics 09 May 2022Could its takeover of workspace collaboration specialist Poly turn HP Inc into a truly open and enterprise-grade collaboration giant? It certainly puts all the hardware in place - multimedia ...
This is a contributed piece written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in follow up to our Low-Code/No-Code (LC/NC) series written by Steve Wood in his role as SVP of product management at ...
A social enterprise and charity in the Scottish Highlands has launched a new service to refurbish unused and unwanted laptops – converting them into affordable, high-quality Chromebooks. ILM ...
Alibaba Group’s global research initiative Alibaba DAMO Academy has made the source code of its latest federated learning platform FederatedScope, a comprehensive platform with easy-to-use ...
The energy and water consumption habits of datacentres often see them painted as the villain in discussions about climate change prevention, but the situation is not quite so cut and dried as that, ...
CW Developer Network
The low-no-code series - Zoho: Next, we need hard core (simple) tools
04 May 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...
CW Developer Network
The low-no-code series - Databricks: Ethical coding, behind the science of bias
03 May 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...
Green Tech
How technology can empower local councils to fight back against the climate emergency
03 May 2022Almost nine in ten councils have declared a climate emergency – but when battling against various objectives and pressures, how many have any confidence in what to do next? In this guest post, ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
‘Traditional’ is not a dirty word
Freeform Dynamics 03 May 2022Sometimes ‘new’ and ‘disruptive’ really doesn’t make sense As an industry analyst, I take a lot of briefings from IT vendors and service providers. Most of these begin with a spokesperson framing ...
CW Developer Network
The low-no-code series - Mulesoft: Fusion team profusion vs. shadow IT confusion
02 May 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jason Knight in his capacity as co-founder & CPO of OctoML – a company known for its platform and solutions that ...
CW Developer Network
Why developers need to engineer-in FIDO two factor authentication now
29 Apr 2022This is a contributed piece for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jason Kent in his role as director at Open Seas, a UK-based enterprise IT solutions company specialising in data ...
Data Matters
Running on empty: why it’s finally time to optimise commercial road transport
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 29 Apr 2022This is a guest blogpost by Wenjia Tang, head of data, DigiHaul. The recent driver shortage has shone a light on the importance of the supply chain industry in terms of keeping the cogs of industry ...
This is a guest post by Chris Kelly, senior vice-president of datacentre solutions at Dell Asia-Pacific and Japan Organisations across the globe are rapidly embracing sustainability goals and ...
Appian played out day 2 of its Appian World user, partner and customer convention this year with the kind of presentations that we would normally expect to feature in a second-day keynote. Not to ...
Matt Calkins, CEO of Appian, kicked off proceedings at Appian World 2022 by sharing his vision for empowering organisations and elevating people through his company's mission to democratise ...
Appian has announced #lowcode4all, a programme focused on providing access to low-code education and certification to drive career advancement and opportunity for the next generation of low-code ...
IT leaders are facing a perfect storm as everyone ramps up the return to office work. Over the last two years, people have grown accustomed to Zoom, Teams and other unified communications services ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Did HMRC really 'lock taxpayers out' from their online accounts?
Editor in chief 26 Apr 2022Did HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) really “lock taxpayers out” from their online accounts, as The Guardian has claimed? It’s a situation that arose from a predictable and – according to HMRC – ...
Data Matters
From code to cloud: securing your software supply chain starts with cloud observability
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 25 Apr 2022This is a guest blogpost by Ash Kulkarni, CEO of Elastic. As organisations increasingly move their infrastructure, applications, and services to the cloud, managing information, maintaining ...
Taking stock of retail tech
How the e-commerce boom is transforming store tech
Business Editor 25 Apr 2022GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, VP of strategy at Aptos, Nikki Baird, explains the ways in which e-commerce is transforming in-store tech and disrupting point of sale (POS). Here are ...
Green Tech
Earth Day 2022: Why the people, the planet and technology must join forces to tackle climate change
22 Apr 2022In this guest post to mark Earth Day 2022, Yann Lechelle, CEO of French cloud provider Scaleway, sets out why tackling climate change requires a three-pronged approach. With each passing day, the ...
We need cryptographic keys, but who is going to manage them? How do you make an obscure topic like cryptographic key management interesting? And can you then persuade people to move this security ...
Green Tech
Eradicating e-waste: Why the UK’s right to repair laws are in urgent need of an upgrade
21 Apr 2022In this guest post, Katy Medlock, UK general manager at online refurbished devices marketplace Back Market, sets out why the UK’s right to repair legislation is in desperate need of a refresh to ...
Proposed Highway Code updates have paved the way for it being legal to watch TV while using self-driving cars. “The Highway Code has been updated a number of times in recent years to reflect the ...
When IT Meets Politics
Building consensus round skills and employment policies that work
Winsafe Ltd 16 Apr 2022successful implementation ... requires that ministers instruct their officials to give priority to actions that involve co-operation across departmental boundaries and to listen to employers and ...
Green Tech
How open source technology collaboration can help in the fight against climate change
14 Apr 2022In this guest post, the founder and executive director of non-profit open source-championing body LF Energy, Dr. Shuli Goodman, talks about how technology collaboration is needed to tackle climate ...
The Easter break and springtime gives everyone a chance to reflect, looking forward to holidays, spending time with the family and indulging in good food and retail therapy. Traditionally, with ...
CW Developer Network
The low-no-code series - Directus: Skip spaghetti solutions, sort the special sauce at source
13 Apr 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Citrix and Microsoft: who’s really leading the transformation agenda?
Freeform Dynamics 12 Apr 2022Citrix loves Microsoft and Microsoft loves Citrix - OK, maybe I’m exaggerating to make a point, but that’s the gist of the official lines you get from both companies. But looking in from the ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team are extremely fond of the Wild West and the Rocky Mountains, but ideally only when we can get our hands on self-service data science tools for data ...
Taking stock of retail tech
As Inflation Rages On, Retailers Turn to AI and Dynamic Pricing
Business Editor 11 Apr 2022GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Matt Pavich, senior director of retail innovation, Revionics, talks about how AI-driven dynamic pricing decisions can assist in a retailer’s ability to ...
Back in the autumn of last year, I talked about a vendor – Bugcrowd – that doesn’t simply rely on AI and ML within a microchip, but actually uses real flesh and bone people (AKA ethical hackers) to ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...
It’s the 2022 Spring conference season and - lockdowns, cancellations, shifts to virtual, other force majeure disruptions notwithstanding - we need to be able to work remotely for the next few ...
Every few years IBM brings out a new addition to its Z series mainframe family. From the information accompanying the release of the new enterprise system, IBM appears to be touting the new z16 ...
Networks Generation
Scoop: Zero Trust Network Access Becomes Your Flexible Friend!
Broadband Testing 06 Apr 2022In my last blog, I highlighted the ongoing debate within IT security that is zero trust or, to use the full acronym, ZTNA (Zero Trust Network Access) and that – in theory, at least – it is kind of ...
Has there been a more over-used term within IT security over the past few years than “zero trust”? Answers in the virtual black box at the back of the virtual room (in the virtual universe). I ...
CW Developer Network
The low-no-code series – Software AG: Automating-out technical debt
06 Apr 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Why combining datacentre monitoring with computational fluid dynamics tech makes good sense
05 Apr 2022In this guest post, Mark Fenton, product manager at datacentre software visualisation provider Future Facilities, sets out why mixing monitoring and computational fluid dynamics technologies could ...